entangle
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By cooling and manipulating these atoms, scientists can entangle them and perform highly precise computations.
From Barron's ● May 20, 2026
“The net is designed to entangle itself on any of the rotating objects in the rear of the car,” Santistevan said.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
Nets along the east coast also routinely entangle humpback whales on their annual migration to and from the tropics.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2025
“Unguided chatbot responses, for example, cannot be neatly constrained. Attempts to do so will either be insufficient or entangle developers in a morass of third-rail social issues.”
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2025
Surely Forest would not entangle the poor woman yet.
From "Messenger" by Lois Lowry
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It nestles and entangles itself in for the long haul.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
Those numbers, however, don't amount to much in the grand scheme, given the rate at which Louisiana "incarcerates and prosecutes and entangles people in the criminal legal system left and right every day," Romero said.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2024
It has put banks on high alert, though their efforts to catch the fraud also routinely entangles innocent customers, causing institutions to suddenly freeze or shut down customer accounts in the process.
From New York Times ● Dec. 9, 2023
But the operatic plot is a skein that sometimes entangles its colorful character and other times leaves them panting with exhaustion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2023
But I must hasten on more speedily to the festal day of the Resident Lady, whose web touches and entangles our Gustavus with so many kinds of threads.
From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul
Though it gets entangled in the topic of retirement, it isn’t the same question.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026
At the school, including during my entangled session on the river, we used ribbon instead of flies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
"The hardest part was getting out," recalled Gil, whose legs had been entangled in a chair.
From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 2026
"That really restricts what kind of entangled states you get."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 6, 2026
He lay on his side entangled in his own robes, struggling to get up.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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Washington's warning about the dangers of entangling alliances was followed for 150 years.
From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2026
One term for the scams is pig butchering, because the scammers “fatten up” their targets by entangling them in romantic relationships online and dangling bogus financial schemes, then “butcher” them by disappearing with their money.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2025
More consolidation – and more influential corporate giants – risks more deeply entangling the interests of profit-driven companies in America’s food system.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2024
The team has not yet fully optimized their electron qubit and will continue to work on extending the coherence time even further as well as entangling two or more qubits.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2023
Talking to him was largely a matter of getting him away from such subjects and entangling him, if possible, in the technicalities of Newspeak, on which he was authoritative and interesting.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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